Signal actions are inherited from the process that invokes the utility. Most utilities don't do any special processing upon receipt of a signal, but behave instead according to the system defaults. When a utility performs some action on receipt of a signal other than the default, it's documented as doing so.
Note that temporary files aren't left in place after a utility is terminated due to a signal, unless otherwise specified.
Servers and resident processes typically run only as root and ignore most signals (such as SIGPWR).